Trying to capture that sweet spot in a new way

I ran OSH every single day at GenCon this year, and it was really invigorating to my enthusiasm for this game as well as a wonderful way to share it with fans and new friends who’ve come to love the system as well.

The game has its origins in the pursuit of a play-anywhere “cocktail napkin” level fantasy RPG, and that’s what I wanted to be able to do during my running around Indianapolis, so I put together these 4.25″ x 5.5″ double-sided character cards for quick and dirty gaming.

All you need is for your players to pick a name, pick a talent, and figure out what you’re adventuring after – all things you can do after you’ve started playing, even – and you’re good to go.

The character art is some of the stuff I’ve commissioned for next-level OSH stuff by the inimitable Kyle Ferrin, check his stuff out, it’s amazing and really captures what I want the game to feel like.

The pins this year were made by my awesome friend Stacy D of Frivology, watch for her selling her stuff soon at epicwares.com.

I think one improvement might be to put 2-3 talents typed in the talent spot, and let them check off the ones they take. That way they can spend Awesome Points to activate the others. Also, typing fits in there a lot better than scribble, and is a lot faster.

Andrew (immediately above) has a fantastic idea there. Checkboxes are great time-savers.

But seriously, this game is still great. I had the pleasure of playing in a slightly abbreviated game as the Magic User in which I rodeo’d a mist-wyrm (pronounced “Miyst WARM” apparently), took over a floating prison, and blew up a tower because it seemed like a good idea.

I greatly look forward to seeing more come out for/with/about the game…but even if it doesn’t, rest easy knowing you’ve made something to be proud of.

These are fantastic. I introduced my players to OSH and they love it. One of the things I particularly like about OSH as a DM is these neat playing aids which make it so easy to run a game. OSH is my favorite set of rules.